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ISAIAH W. SHOE-MAKER, OF ROSSTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

FOLDING FIRE-PLACE FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,519, dated June 17,1884.

Application filed October 23, 1883.

To all whom, it ntwy concern:

Be it known that l, ISAIAH XV. SHOE- )IXKER, of llosston, Armstrongcounty, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved FoldingFire-Place Fender, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

My invention consists of a simple contrivance for a fireplace fender ofwire-cloth material, contrived to fold compactly when removed from thefireplace, and being arranged with a sloping front, having a neaterappearance, and being more desirable for use, because the receding frontis less in the way and less liable to catch the clothes of persons nearit, all as hereinafter fully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved folding fireplacefender,and Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the same. Figs. 3 and 4represent modifications of the device for securing the fender to thesides of the mantel.

The said improved folding fireplace fender consists, essentially, of thefront panel, a, and two side panels, I), of woven wire, stretched onsuitable frames, the sides I) being inclined backward from the bottomupward on the front edge, and said sides I) and the front a being hingedtogether at c, fon folding the fender together when put away, and forextending it to be put in use; and the sides b have handle-studs dattached to the frame, for affcrding a convenient means of lifting thefender when it is to be taken from the fire place or replaced thereat.With the sides and front thus arranged, I provide a top panel, 0, whichmay be partly of wire and partly of sheet metal or wholly of wire, aspreferred, and which may be used or not, as required.

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The top 6 is to be laid on the top of the sides and front, whereon it isto be retained by the studs f, projecting upward from the top of 5 thefront a. On the bars g of the side panels, next to the fire-place frontand at a suitable point below the top, I provide clasps or brackets h,to connect with the front plate of the fire-place by thumb-screws t, asshown in Fig. l, or by spring hooks or clasps K, as shown in Fig. 3, tohook behind the edge of the front plate, A; and I also provide asheet-metal back plate, j, with a suitable hook or lug, k, at each end,to drop down between the fender and the fireplace front to rest on saidbrackets h, for a blower to increase the draft, when desired.

Screw-eyes may be attached to wood mantels, for connecting the fender tothe fire-place by suitable hooks, K, as in Fig. 4.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. The combination, with the fender and brackets h,secured near the upper ends ofthe sides of the fender, and provided withsetscrews or other analogous devices for attachment to the sides of themantel, of the sheetmetal back plate,j, suspended from the same bracketsthat secure the fender to the mantel sides, as set forth.

2. The combination, with theimprovedfireplace fender consisting of thefront panel, a, v

